TRADING ON SUNDAYS
INCREASE IN FINES CITY COURT WARNING (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. An indication that the fines for Sunday trading would he considerably increased if the offence showed no signs of abating under the present scale of line, was given by Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday when shopkeepers were prosecuted. , . .. Sub-Inspector Fox said that in spite of the fact that upward of 100 prosecutions had been instituted within the last 12 months the practice had continued and further prosecutions were pending. Complaints had been leceived by the police from the groceis, tobacconists and fruiterers’ association. “The matter has become really serious,” said Sub-Inuspector Fox. “Prosecutions and fines have apparently had no effect m stopping this illegal practice.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19379, 17 July 1937, Page 7
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